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Pundits have spent the past several weeks trying to understand polls showing Americans think Joe Biden is "too old" to be president when Donald Trump isn't far off from the age.

As part of a CNN panel on Sunday, two Democrats and a Republican chatted with Jim Acosta about a recent interview with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is still blaming Democrats for being kicked out of the seat.

"The Good Liars," comedians who interview Donald Trump's supporters, confronted MAGA fans at a recent event using the ex-president's own words to ask about him.

The issue was whether Trump's fans would admit that Trump lied. In one case, for example, Trump talked about his work as president on Russia and China in 2021. Trump wasn't president in 2021.

Special counsel Jack Smith accused former President Donald Trump's legal team of misleading him in a ruse to have cameras broadcast his election subversion trial.

In a filing on Sunday, Smith called out Trump after he "reversed course" on whether cameras should be in the courtroom. But just days earlier, Trump had told Smith that he did not oppose the government's motion against courtroom cameras.

Eric Trump proclaimed on Newsmax this weekend that his family's "assets" are the "Mona Lisas of the real estate world," prompting ridicule across the internet.

Trump was responding to the legal troubles the Trump Organization is facing in New York after the company was accused of artificially inflating assets when attempting to get better loans and insurance rates. While Trump's father, Donald Trump, has confessed that they lied, he argued that it didn't hurt anyone; thus, they should be considered innocent.

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday unloaded on New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ahead of the testimony of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

Using his Truth Social platform, Trump called himself a "victim of a corrupt legal system that is being used by those surrounding Crooked Joe Biden."

In a deep dive into a growing rift between conservative tech billionaires and the Republican party's 2024 presidential nomination aspirants, the Washington Post is reporting that top candidates Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) have alienated the wealthy donors due to their extremist antics.

According to the report, key Silicon Valley tech executives don't care about social issues and are desperately looking for someone who will do their bidding when it comes to deregulation.

However, when it comes to Trump and DeSantis, their obsession with red meat cultural issues favored by their fans has alienated key donors.

The Post is reporting, "Although the tech elite often have criticized the left and 'wokeness,' some now say the GOP has overemphasized divisive social issues such as transgender rights and abortion at the expense of the tech titans’ primary political goal: radical deregulation."

Case in point, the report notes, is billionaire David Sacks who moderated the DeSantis campaign launch along with Elon Musk back when "X" was still called Twitter.

Since that time, along with X's fortunes, that relationship has gone downhill.

"The right-wing venture capitalist David Sacks was a major DeSantis backer, hosting the launch of DeSantis’s presidential campaign on X, formerly Twitter, in the spring," the Post is reporting. "But in recent months, Sacks has soured on DeSantis, according to two people familiar with his thinking, and has thrown fundraisers for rivals Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, then running as a Democrat."

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According to one insider, Sacks has parted ways with DeSantis because of the direction his struggling campaign has taken.

“Most Silicon Valley people are politically but not socially conservative,” asserted a Sacks associate. “All DeSantis needed to be was normal. Now he’s gone nuts on this woke thing.”

As for Trump, an associate of billionaire Peter Thiel explained his departure from the former president's camp, "The problem was Trump was very undisciplined, and his own character traits sabotaged the policy changes. Instead of just executing relentlessly, he would cause turmoil and chaos, and that would interfere with his agenda.”

MSNBC host Jen Psaki warned Democrats that "hand wringing" about President Joe Biden's weaknesses was missing the more significant problem that Donald Trump would "unravel the rule of law" in his next presidency.

During the opening of her program on Sunday, Psaki recalled recent reports about how Trump would punish his foes if he wins a second term.

In a Sunday, November 12 column by Los Angeles Times Washington columnist Doyle McManus, he argues ex-President Donald Trump's strategy to portray himself as a martyr amid his four indictments may have "cemented his hold on the Republican presidential nomination," but "as a legal strategy, it's been a bust."

The MAGA hopeful's three courtroom tactics — to denounce, disrupt, delay – have not helped any of his cases, McManus emphasizes.

Reflecting on yet another loss at the state level for anti-abortion activists, New York Times columnist and evangelical Christian David French wrote on Sunday that their biggest obstacle they have to overcome is Donald Trump and his impact on the Republican party.

According to French, under Trump, the GOP has lost its moral authority which has turned off some voters who are on the fence when it comes to the sanctity of life versus a woman's right to make private medical decisions.

Noting the massive setback for anti-abortion forces in Ohio this past week, French conceded, "There’s no way to spin this result. There’s no way to spin every other pro-choice result in every other red-state referendum. The pro-life movement is in a state of electoral collapse, and I think I know one reason."

That would be Trump who ushered in a generation of aggressively rightwing politicians who sow chaos when it comes to government mandates.

"Trump’s movement dismisses the value of personal character. It mocks personal restraint. And it’s happy to inflict its will on others if it achieves what it wants," he wrote before adding, "I don’t think the pro-life movement has fully reckoned with the political and cultural fallout from the libertine right-wing response to the Covid pandemic. Here was a movement that was loudly telling women that they had to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, with all the physical transformations, risks and financial uncertainties that come with pregnancy and childbirth, at the same time that millions of its members were also loudly refusing the minor inconveniences of masking and the low risks of vaccination."

As he notes, the sea-change within the GOP since Trump became its de facto leader has made it inhospitable to the anti-abortion crowd.

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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade was mocked by network contributor Leslie Marshall after he claimed Donald Trump can't remember who is president because he still thinks Barack Obama is in charge of the country.

During a Sunday Fox News discussion about President Joe Biden's age, Marshall pointed to a double standard.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday urged House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to move forward quickly with an impeachment of President Joe Biden before he is re-elected.

"Tell us what your expectations are in terms of this investigation, and will it lead to an impeachment of Joe Biden?" Bartiromo asked Jordan during a Sunday interview.